Dorkly's Guide to the New Pokémon Starters

Pokemon X & Y  the first fully 3D Pokémon games  were announced today for the Nintendo 3DS. Very little is known about the games beyond the new graphical engine  but one thing Nintendo did reveal was the identities of the three starter Pokemon in the game. Here they are below, with some additional information deduced by Dorkly's staff of Pokéresearchers.